Having spent the past few years quietly impressing in supporting roles, Sienna Miller is back in a full-strength leading role in poignant drama American Woman. She tells Total Film about being front and centre again, shying away from blockbusters, and why those ‘wife-at-home’ roles were important.
It’s a grower, not a shower,” says Sienna Miller with a grin, referring to her upcoming film, American Woman. That cheeky assessment is fair though, both in terms of the expectation-defying, decade-spanning plot that gets its claws into you slowly, and the film’s own journey. The independent drama was shot two years ago and has toured the festival circuit (Total Film first saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018).
It’s July 2019 when we meet Miller at The Electric members’ bar in Notting Hill. Hunkered down on a sofa, she’s softly spoken but candid, and clearly still enthused about her experience on American Woman. After a string of impactful but screentime-light supporting roles in a slew of heavyweight films (Foxcatcher, American Sniper, High-Rise, The Lost City Of Z), she’s in almost every frame of American Woman, shouldering a demanding leading role. “I think I have been looking for [this type of role] my entire career,” she says. “They’re kind of few and far between.”
In the film, which is directed by Jake (son of Ridley) Scott, Miller plays Debra, a working-class single mother, who’s also a grandmother at 31 years of age. Deb’s scratching out an existence in a small Pennsylvania town, and her somewhat irresponsible life choices draw disapproval from her mother (Amy Madigan) and sister (Christina Hendricks). Everything changes when Deb’s daughter disappears. The film follows Deb for the next 11 years but doesn’t tread the path you might expect: this isn’t a standard missing-person thriller.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 2019 من Total Film.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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